Cyanocorax Sanblasianus Bird

Cyanocorax Sanblasianus Bird

Cyanocorax Sanblasianus Bird

English Name:  San Blas Jay
Latin Name:  Cyanocorax sanblasianus
Protonym:  Pica San-Blasiana Mag.Zool.(2), 4 pl.28,text
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Corvidae / Cyanocorax
Taxonomy Code:  sabjay
Type Locality:  Acapulco et a San-Blas .... Mexique [= Acapulco].
Author:  Lafresnaye
Publish Year:  1842
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

CYANOCORAX
(Corvidae; Ϯ Plush-crested Jay C. chrysops) Gr. κυανος kuanos   dark-blue; κοραξ korax, κορακος korakos  raven, crow  < κρωζω krōzō  to croak; "XIX. Fam. Garrulidae.  ...  Cyanocorax: Corvus pileatus  col. 57. u. s. w." (Boie 1826); "Cyanocorax Boie, 1826, Isis von Oken, 19, part 10, col. 975. Type, by monotypy, Corvus pileatus Temminck = Pica chrysops Vieillot." (Blake in Peters, 1962, XV, p. 220) (see Cyanocitta).
Synon. Argurocitta, Calocitta, Cissilopha, Coronideus, Cyanocorvus, Cyanurus, Henocitta, Protocitta, Psilorhinus, Uroleuca, Xanthocitta, Xanthoura.

sanblasiana / sanblasianus
San Blas, Mexico.
● ex “Geai de San-Blas” of Néboux 1840 (Cyanocorax).

SUBSPECIES

San Blas Jay (nelsoni)
Latin Name: Cyanocorax sanblasianus nelsoni
nelsoni
• Dr Edward William Nelson (1855-1934) US zoologist, collector in US and Mexico, President of AOU 1908, and Chief of US Biological Survey 1916-1927 (subsp. Agelaius phoeniceus, Ammospiza, syn. Antrostomus badius, subsp. Campephilus guatemalensis, subsp. Campylorhynchus megalopterus, subsp. Catharus frantzii, syn. Colinus virginianus insignis, subsp. Cyanocorax sanblasianus, syn. Dryobates pubescens medianus, subsp. Eupherusa eximia, Geothlypis, subsp. Habia rubica, subsp. Icterus cucullatus, subsp. Lagopus mutum, syn. Lanius ludovicianus mexicanus, syn. Larus vegae x L. hyperboreus hybrid, subsp. Lochmias nematura, syn. Myiarchus tyrannulus cooperi, syn. Nyctidromus albicollis yucatanensis, subsp. Onychoprion anaethetus, syn. Phaethornis striigularis subrufescens, subsp. Polioptila caerulea, subsp. Quiscalus mexicanus, subsp. Sialia mexicana, subsp. Sitta carolinensis, subsp. Tunchiornis ochraceicepsVireo (ex Vireo nanus Nelson, 1898)).
• George Nelson (1876-1962) US botanist, zoologist, photographer, taxidermist at MCZ, Harvard College 1901-1946 (Martin Schneider in litt.) (subsp. Setophaga vitellina).

San Blas Jay (sanblasianus)
Latin Name: Cyanocorax sanblasianus sanblasianus
sanblasiana / sanblasianus
San Blas, Mexico.
● ex “Geai de San-Blas” of Néboux 1840 (Cyanocorax).